“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

(Little Foxes, 1866)

"I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone, because I am still alive and this might be the last day that I can tell you that I love you"

Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements)

"Tears are the words the heart can't express"

Author unknown

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain"

Author unknown

“We meet but briefly in life, if we touch each other with stardust – that is everything.”

Author unknown.

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them"

Henri Matisse

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

Og Mandino

"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."

Oscar Wilde

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

A. Sachs

“Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority”

Edward Young, 1683 –1765

"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light."

Joaquin Miller

"Walk tall as the trees; live strong as the mountains; be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of summer in your heart, and the Great Spirit will always be with you."

anonymous, native American

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong - the amount of work is the same"